Word: laudanum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Oxford, and sought neither friends nor university honors. The exposure and privations which he had previously experienced drove him to the demoralizing habit of eating opium, the source of so many pains and pleasures. The deadly habit soon became a daily practice and was accompanied with the taken of laudanum...